Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions in Sweet B - CVE-2022-23002

 

Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions in Sweet B - CVE-2022-23002

Published: August 3, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU65995
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-23002
CWE-ID: CWE-703
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to the resulting output is not properly reduced modulo the P-256 field prime and is invalid when compressing or decompressing a point on the NIST P-256 elliptic curve with an X coordinate of zero. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

Sweet B

How to mitigate CVE-2022-23002

Install updates from vendor's website.

Sweet B - update to v2

External References

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